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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 2004 07:05:24 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl
Message-ID:  <20040921.070524.21936977.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <200409201934.i8KJYfcS036447@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040921.054126.07648742.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org>

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"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> wrote
  in <20040920211839.GA15066@hub.freebsd.org>:

obrien> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:41:26AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
obrien> >  I would like to make it clear that FreeBSD supports EM64T
obrien> >  by using the Intel's architecture name because the word
obrien> >  AMD64 can confuse the users.  Is that unacceptable?
obrien> 
obrien> If I can list AMD Athlon, AMD K6, AMD K5, VIA, Cyrix, Transmeta, National
obrien> Semiconductor, IBM, etc... in the list rather than "x86 compatible".  For
obrien> Alpha we would need to add Samsung, who also made some Alpha dirivitives.
obrien> For Sparc64 we would need to add Fujitsu.

 These you mentioned are not architecture name.  And the terms
 AMD64 and EM64T have a bit complicated history, so to mention
 the both should help the users.

 If you prefer "X compatible" for the consistency, why did you
 keep the others and remove EM64T only?  As you already mentioned,
 there are "Alpha compatible," "PC-98 compatible," and
 "Sparc64 compatible."

obrien> People owning Intel EM64T machines well know that it is a copy of the
obrien> AMD64 platform.

 I think it should be explicitly stated as long as there
 are questions like the following:

 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?411B8E17.5020409
 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040807004555.14650.qmail
 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200408121227.51268.jkim

-- 
| Hiroki SATO

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